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To: belker who wrote (21062)	6/28/2001 1:03:41 AM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110652

hi belker very glad to hear you enjoy the thread and that you've been helped here already. we appreciate hearing the feed back, believe me. thanks. belker, you ask a ton of good questions, and i sure wish i had the time right now to dig in and respond to each and every one. but alas, i find myself in a very busy period for at least a day or two, and i don't want you to think i am ignoring your post. plenty of very capable thread members here who hopefully can lend a hand and/or an opinion for you. i have only installed a second physical drive one time (so i am by no means an authority), and much of what you ask is nowhere near second nature to me and requires revisiting the whole project. for me, that takes concentration. <g3> i'll get back to you soon btw, i like the dylan quote on your profile very much. :) mark

To: belker who wrote (21062)	6/28/2001 6:58:23 AM
From: thecow	Respond to of 110652

belker I have no experience dual booting but until mark returns or someone else comes along with some hands-on experience here's a couple of informative looking links on the subject of dual booting. Perhaps these articles will answer your questions. latestupdates.com tweak3d.net worldowindows.com tc

To: belker who wrote (21062)	6/28/2001 9:15:56 AM
From: Fargonaut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

belker, I dual-boot with W98SE and W2000Pro, and have 2 hard drives. i am wondering what is the best way to install the second hd... If it were me, I would partition the new (larger?) hard drive in two and put both OSs on it. I would have to reinstall W98, but W98 has always given me so much trouble that a clean reinstall has usually been worth while. I would use the second hard drive solely as a backup device. Several of the thread regulars use DriveImage, I do and I know I swear by it. It runs from the hard drive or floppies, and the floppies have restored my disk to perfection when the computer seemed dead beyond hope. This way, if you have a recent image file on the second hard drive, either drive can explode and you are still ok. DriveImage is also useful for installing new software: make a backup (takes 10 minutes), install the software. If the new program screws things up, you restore the image, and you have no odd bits in your registry left over from a conventional uninstall. If I did it over, I would reduce the size of the W98 partition - I never use it any more. W2000 is so much better, and device and application support is broad enough for me. Frank